thoughts on life

Science cannot function and advance without two premises, both of which are essential to the scientific enterprise, but adverse to life and right living: dualism and reductionism. The ultimate example…

After nearly two hours overlooking the volcanic gorge without a soul in sight, the solitude is palpable. It’s neither inside or outside, but both. Strange how solitude, aloneness and loneliness…

Forecasts about the inevitability of catastrophic climate change at the hands of man, and social upheaval stemming from it, are becoming commonplace. Look behind the big science and small talk…

Atheist ‘mega-churches’ are springing up in Britain and America, with attendees “bound by their belief in non-belief.” Apparently, you can take God out of the church, but you can’t take…

Jane Goodall, longtime observer and friend of chimpanzees in Tanzania, said recently that like humans, chimps “have a dark, brutal side to their nature.” Maybe they can teach us something.

With America at the nadir of its 237-year history, and American culture fast becoming the global culture, perhaps it’s the right time to revisit two truncated bursts of creativity in…

Although I had not yet put my entire life together, if I waited on it all to be put together I would never start living again. It is like those…

It’s strange how one can sometimes have more in common with people that hold opposite views than one does with people who hold similar views. Such is the case with…